Bottle opener



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INVENTOR WMM/ ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 19, 1952 rare LEONARD Gr. GRAY, F DECATUR, ILLINOIS BOTTLE OPENER,

Application filed October 22, 1930. Serial No. 490,373.

This invention is designed as an improvement upon the device disclosed in my United States Patent No. 1,746,393.

As described in that patent, the device was designed to prevent injury to or the defacing of the wood work in hotel rooms, experience having shown that unless some preventive means is provided for that purpose, by the hotel, guests will employ different parts of the wood work to remove caps from bottles, and in this way deface the wood work, and in some cases the furniture of the room. As shown in that patent, I provide a torsional cork extractor, which was carried by a re cess in which was mounted the ring of the torsional extractor. Experience has shown, however, in the use of these devices, that guests often removed the torsional extractor from the device, which resulted in considerable annoyance and inconvenience to subsequent occupants of the room, as well as pecuniary lossto the hotel for necessary repairs and replacements.

My invention has for its object, to conas struct a device for this purpose, so that once it is mounted in a room it will be impossible for the torsional extractor to be removed, unless the device itself is removed from the wood work, and this would require a tool.

A concrete embodiment of my invention is illustrat d in the accompanying drawin s, to be considered as a part of this specification, in which- Fig. 1 is a top or plan view of my improved bottle opener;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing the device attached to the wood work;.

Fig. 3 a detail view of the bottle opener without the torsional extractor; and

Fig. i is a side view, showing the manner 'of use of the device.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the entire description. As shown in the drawings, my invention comprises a sheet steel stamping, having a base portion 1 and an outwardly projecting portion 2. The base 1 is preferably attached to the wood work 3 by means of screws i. As shown, three screws 4 are employed, though obviously any desired number may be used.

bottles for beverage purposes.

On the outwardly projecting portion 2 is formed a downwardly depending lip or hook 5, which is adapted to engage the edge of a bottle cap such as is commonly employed on in the outwardly projecting portion 2 1 form a slot 6, which extends through the base 1, and in which I mount the annular portion 7 of a torsional extractor 8. This annular portion 7 is inserted into the slot 6 before device is attached to the wood work 3, when, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, it will be obvious that it cannot be removed from the slot '6 except by withdrawing the screws 4 by which the device is attached to the wood work 3.

The operation of the device is as follows: Assuming the bottle to be opened is provided with a cork, the torsional extractor 8 is screwed into the cork a sufficient distance to enable the cork to be withdrawn by drawing the bottle away from the device, this being clearly indicated in Fig. A.

The manner of opening the other style of bottle closure is shown in dotted lines in Fi the bottle being placed in position so that the hook 5 will engage the cap of the bottle, when by moving the bottle downwardly the cap will be removed therefrom.

Having described my invention, what I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

In a combined bottle opener and cap remover, of the type wherein a hook element is provided for the removal of crown caps, a base having openings therethrough to receive wood screws to secure the opener in place, and an outwardly extending portion said base and outwardly extending portion having a slot therein closed at the front, whereby the ring of a cork screw may be entered in said slot, but may not be removed therefrom when the case is mounted in position. LEONARD G. GRAY. Ba 

